Think Like A Designer: What’s Up

A Meet And Greet Event

In a society riddled with all kinds of challenges, the need to flip our problems into opportunities has become a necessity and designing solutions that actually solve these problems requires certain skills.

‘What’s UP!’ is a meet and greet event to introduce the 10 modules “Think Like A Designer” course that would enable young designers, design professionals, entrepreneurs, and design enthusiasts use design thinking principles and application to design simple solutions to complex problems in a unique society like Nigeria.

What’s UP! was put together by Olalekan Akinyele, powered by Xaine Ingenius in collaboration with Mbari Uno.

THE HOST

Olalekan Akinyele
Visionary / Lead Facilitator, Think Like A Designer
Lexain, as he is fondly called, is a professional creative designer with 10+ years experience delivering high quality and compelling brand identity designs, assets, devices, and visuals for advertising campaigns expressed across multiple platforms that build strong equity for brands. He is very passionate about capacity building as he believes it is the most important gap within the country that needs to be urgently closed. He is the Founder of Xaine Ingenius, ColordTees and Think Like A Designer and a volunteer facilitator at Orange Academy for over 6 years.

Guest Speakers

Chuma Anagbado
Co-Founder/Director, Mbari Uno
A multidisciplinary designer that is passionate about creating scalable and sustainable solutions through design research & collaborations. He is a leader of thought, a design activist and an influencer in the burgeoning African design industry. He is the founder of Lizaad; a Nigerian based designer brand and the co-founder of both Aziza Design; Nigeria’s 1st Multidisciplinary Design Firm, and Mbari Uno; a hub using design to build human capacity & make social impact by collaborating with communities to innovate solutions to social problems across sub-Saharan Africa.

Chuma is also the host of Design Talk With Chuma (DTWC)- a conversation series with leading designers & thought leaders that spotlights, analyses, reviews, and critique select design ideas, topics & work from across sub-Saharan Africa

 Sola Mosuro
Deputy Creative Director, Dare Create
Sola is an innate storyteller, who relishes challenges and thrives under pressure. His greatest strengths are his communication and writing skills, quick analytical mind, visual-thinking and a conversational approach to eking out the best possible creative solutions from people.
With a career in scriptwriting and production with such major organizations as the British Council, BBC world service trust, AIT and Moments with Mo which ultimately led him to a career in advertising. Over the past eleven years, he has worked for, with and led some of the industry’s most creative minds. Through this journey, he has been privileged to serve some of Nigeria’s biggest brands and build a greatly varied portfolio of recognized and acclaimed works.

A graduate from Lagos State University with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. He began to develop his skills as a storyteller in LASU, going on to write, produce, direct and perform in several major theatre productions on campus and beyond.

Ayo Ishola
Associate Creative Director, DDB
An extremely dynamic and passionate individual, obsessed with photography, Art Direction,, and creativity generally. He is also a life-hack and tech freak, admires creative screen-crafts from Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott & Peter Jackson. Asides from winning several Advertising awards and being published in several creative archives, he is the first and still the only Nigerian photographer who has been published amongst the 200 Best Commercial Photographers worldwide. His lens has been graced by Aliko Dangote, Herbert Wigwe, Cherie Blair and many other CEOs. With over 8 years of experience, he has solved creative problems for a broad range of both local and international brands like MTN, Globacom, Diageo, Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Indomie, Dulux, Exxon Mobil, Arla, and Interswitch just to name a few.

Who Should Attend
Graphic Designers
Designers
Design Enthusiasts
Entrepreneurs
Art Directors

Date: Saturday. 1st February 2020
Address: 10C Ladoke Akintola, Ikeja G.R.A., Lagos.
Time: 2 pm prompt

Admission is Free. Register HERE!